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29 Bosisto St

Location

29 BOSISTO STREET, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 180565

File Number

Y2011:8174

Level

Rec for HO area indiv sig

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Built by 1918. They replaced two detached houses on the site. The owner of the four properties was the Wustemann Estate. Edward Holden, a carpenter was living in a new house at no.25 Bosisto Street in 1917, but by 1918 Stephen Solly, a clerk, had moved into this house. The first residents at nos.27-31 seem to have been Joseph Daly, a bootmaker, Robert Taylor, a clerk and Constable George Miller.

Two relatively plain single-storey, single-fronted late Edwardian brick pairs, with an unusual courtyard plan. Apparently semi-detached, they actually form a row, joined at the rear. They have Marseilles tiled hip-roofs and red tuck-pointed brick, with corrugated iron hip verandahs. These have timber Tuscan posts with a palisade valence and fretwork brackets. Cills are bluestone, blacked and terra-cotta chimney-pots. At the rear, a party-wall skillion extends across the site as a gable, with a skillion verandah facing the rear garden. The plan of these houses is unique in Richmond. The roof tiles have been replaced with concrete.

How is it significant?
The house row is aesthetically and historically significant (National Estate Register Criteria E1, A4) to the locality of Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The building is significant:
- for its good representation of a key period in the City's history; and
- as part of a series of single-storey, single-fronted, late Edwardian brick pairs, with unusual rear courtyard plans.

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